³ “I have ^(A)declared the former things from the beginning;
They went forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it.
Suddenly I did them, ^(B)and they came to pass.
⁴ Because I knew that you were ^[a]obstinate,
And ^(C)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
⁵ Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’

⁶ “You have heard;
See all this.
And will you not declare it?
I have made you hear new things from this time,
Even hidden things, and you did not know them.
⁷ They are created now and not from the beginning;
And before this day you have not heard them,
Lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’
⁸ Surely you did not hear,
Surely you did not know;
Surely from long ago your ear was not opened.
For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
And were called ^(D)a transgressor from the womb.

¹⁶ “Come near to Me, hear this:
^(A)I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there.
And now ^(B)the Lord God and His Spirit
^[a]Have sent Me.”